Manning clearly isn't all the way back, but he has thrown it deep at times
in camp. He completed a beautiful
deep post on Friday. It appears the Broncos are just being careful early in
camp, but all of the worrying about the focus on short passing seems to be a
bit much.

"Where I'll be, percentage-wise, I don't know," Manning told Peter King of
SI.com. "I don't know if I'll feel the way I've always felt again. Everybody
wonders, 'Can he get back to where he was?' That bar was set pretty high. Now,
my goal is to feel as good as I possibly can -- right now."

King says Manning is not "ripping" his
throws like he used to. Manning is still trying to build up the strength
around his shoulders.

This was always going to be a process, and it would be a bigger surprise if
Manning was "ripping" it so early in camp. Manning can be effective even
without a huge arm. Let's give the guy a month (or two) before assuming he's
Chad Pennington 2.0.